Select Contents of Oriental Journals

This section summarises notable articles from contemporary oriental journals, providing readers with concise abstracts of recent scholarship. Items reviewed include: Louis Renou’s analysis of dhvani (suggestion) in Sanskrit poetics; P. K. Gode’s biographical note on the seventeenth‑century scholar Rāmacandra Bhaṭṭa; C. J. Raja’s discussion of Old Persian inscriptions and their linguistic parallels with Sanskrit; N. Aiyaswami Śāstrī’s examination of Abhidharma concepts such as vedanā, saṃjñā and saṃskāra; and a critical note on a claim that Pusyamitra Śuṅga persecuted Buddhists. Other entries describe studies of caste and marriage in ancient India, analyses of Paninian rules on personal names, reports on archaeological discoveries at Barli, surveys of works on Śiva‑dharma and translations of mathematical and grammatical treatises. By collating abstracts across disciplines—philology, archaeology, epigraphy, religious studies and historical linguistics—the section acts as a digest of the year’s research activity. Although each summary is brief, collectively they showcase the breadth of ongoing oriental scholarship and direct readers to diverse resources for further study.

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